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...George Bush, or one of his cronies. It's not a Republican at all. It's L. Douglas Wilder, governor of Virginia, formal contender for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Wilder, best known as the nation's first elected Black governor, defies the stereotype of a Black politician. He sounds more like Jack Kemp than he sounds like Jesse Jackson...
ANOTHER YOU. A congenital liar (Gene Wilder) and his con man friend (Richard Pryor) get involved in an elaborate insurance scam. This comedy is complicated too -- but a big why-bother. By now these two gifted farceurs are doing it from memory, not from inspiration. The parts keep moving long after the machine is turned...
...Brooks' winning streak lasted through the '70s. But people are avoiding Brooks' Life Stinks, a kind of Homeless Alone about a billionaire on the bum, as if it were trying to wipe a rag across their windshield. Brooks' old colleague Gene Wilder has fared no better with Another You, in which he plays a compulsive liar coupled in a complex scam with con man Richard Pryor. On its second weekend of release, this mediocre jape averaged a pathetic $262 per screen; that's about 50 people in each theater all weekend. With those numbers, a moviemaker can go broke...
...oily agents coddling clients over lunch and at the racetrack, or their considered explanations to the camera of what they do for a living. Ed Limato, who represents such stars as Mel Gibson and Richard Gere, talks about the joys of occasionally handling a newcomer, like actor James Wilder, whom he can teach "how to dress, who's important for him to know, who's not important for him to know." Another agent discusses the value of starting out in the mail room. "You learn what an agent sounds like and talks like and dresses like. You see what...